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The Sun. (North Canton, Stark County, Ohio), 1973-06-27

1973-06-27-001

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Vol. 50 - No. 35
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NORTH CANTON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 1973 _ 1-0c Ver coPy' $500 per year by Mail' ?7°° 0utside County
No End Of Money Crisis
On Friday, February 23, 1973, the price of gold
soared to $95 an ounce on the London market in a
continuing demonstration by foreigners that they have
lost faith and confidence in the U.S. dollar.
Ita mid-February, at the time the dollar was devalued by 10% and the price of U.S. held gold was increased from $38 to $42.22 an ounce, financial "experts" predicted the world price of gold would not go above $80
per ounce, the previous record high. Events of February 23 proved that the so-called experts were whistling in the dark. It also raises the grave question as to
whether the 10% U.S. dollar devaluation will even start
to solve the dollar crisis around the world.
Normal' trading in gold has been $5 million dollars
to $10 million a day on all world markets. On February 23 between $50 million and $100 million worth of
gold was purchased in the European markets, and the
purchases were made with unwanted American dollars
of which some $70 billion are floating around the world.
Americans are prohibited by law from buying,
selling, or even possessing gold except when the metal
is used for manufacturing or medical purposes. Coveted
by foreigners everywhere, as presently demonstrated,
a succession of Presidents of the United States and subservient Congresses have reviled as .something despicable. Used a medium of exchange it is certain to bring
a prison sentence. Americans have been made second class citizens of the world.
Uncle Sam once had the world's largest supply of
gold .huHion. It ,was Uncle SamV promise; then that he
wmild redeem, upon demand, every dollar he sent
abroad. For years it was his proud boast that "A DOLLAR IS AS GOOD AS GOLD" and he made good that
boast. Remember?
But, then on the scene came Uncle Sap with his
printing press money. Gold, he said, in effect, was a
throwback to the dark ages—a medium of international
exchange to be reviled and despised.
So we arrive at February 23, 1973, when our printing press money (greenbacks), unwanted by the rest
of the world, are being used by millions to buy gold.
At the same time greenbacks are being devalued in the
United States, further destroying confidence in them.
Twice during the past year the United States has
been faced with a.n international monetary crisis. It
first devalued the dollar by 8.57% and raised the price
of the gold it still holds by $3 an ounce to $38. On
February 13 the walls started to collapse again. This
brought a 10% devaluation of the dollar and a $4 increase in the price of gold to $42 an ounce, less than
half the world market price.
The United States financial crisis, neither at home
nor abroad, has been solved. The end of mismanagement is not yet.
\
The Second Freedom
"Find a need and fill it" — that's the secret of
success in a free enterprise system.
But those six words tell us much more than the
recipe for wealth. They tell us a lot about the nature
of a society in which such advice proves true* a lot we
take for granted.
What do they tell us?
•First, that a free enterprise society is concerned
with the fulfillment of human need's.
Virtually every modern socio-economic system
claims to have this objective. But in some societies,
the determination of which "needs" to satisfy is vested in a small group.
Under a free enterprise system, each individual
has the right to make his own decisions about the
needs requiring attention and to act on those decisions,
has the right to make his own decisions about the
needs requiring attention, and to act on tose decisions.
If he is correct, he wfill be rewarded—not for his
greed, but for his service to the community.
Second, the six words tell us that a member of a
free enterprise society is free to criticize the established way of doing things.
Finding fault with the status quo in an essential
prerequisite to making improvements. We value what
works in our economic system, we do not have to pretend that it works because we value it.
Third, we can see from the first two conclusions
that a free enterprise system brings to the identification and resolution of economic problems the greatest possible amount of diversity of human intelligence.
There is literally no broader base conceivable than one
which encompasses every individual member of the
society.
We seldom think of our economic freedom as one *
of the fundamental freedoms, yet its loss would probably be noticed more quickly, by more people, than
the toss of freedom of speech, worship, petition, or
due process, of law.
Imagine what life would be like if y.ou could not,
choose your job; if you could not strike or quit; if you
could not decide for yourself where to live, what goods
to buy, what clothes to wear.
We exercise political freedom rarely; we exercise
economic freedom many times each day.
Dale Gerber To
Assume Rotary
Club Leadership
Dale Gerber will succeed
Bill Stull Jr. to the presidency
of North Canton Rotary Club
at the annual installation banquet on Thursday, June 28, at
6 p.m. at Topps Chalet.
Governor-elect Francis
Lang will be on hand to conduct the installation following .
a 7 p.m. dinner program.
Other new officers include
James Jester, vice president
and president-elect; Dale
Wearstler, secretary; Larry
Merriman, assistant secretary; George Gross, treasurer; Rick Bardine, assistant
treasurer, and Del Hall and
Bill Gluck, sergeants-at-
arms.
Glenn DeHoff will be dinner
master of ceremonies and Dr.
Richard Longbrake will give
the invocation.
Planning the event are Dr.
William Krichbaum, chairman
of the social committee, assisted by George Armour, Bob
McQueen, Dick Stratton and
Bob Zimmerman.
74 Pay Hikes Voted
For Mayor, Council
Pay increases effective in January, 1974, for the mayor,
president of council and council members were voted by City
Council Monday night. The mayor's salary will go from the
present $4,500 to $7,000, council president from $1,500 to
$2,000 and councilmen, from $1,200 to $1,500.
Deadline Is
Moved Up
For Holiday
With the Fourth of July Holiday falling on our publication
day, Wednesday, July 4, The
Sun will be published a day
early so subscribers can receive their copies on Thursday
as Usual.
All news items must be in
our office no later than Saturday morning, June 30.
The deadline for placing ads
will be Monday afternoon at 2
p.m.
GRAND OPENING; Welcoming ceremonies Tuesday formally launched the grand opening days.for'the ;hew locally-owned independent super market, Super Duper, at 1180
S. Main St. On hancl for the occasion were (1. to r.) Store Owner Glenn Thome, Manager Bill Oesch, Mayor David W. Johnson and George Turkal, representing the North
Cantbn Area Chamber of Commerce. The store, the second in Stark County for Mr.
Thome, opened forfirasiness Wednesday morning and will keep 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
hours Monday through Saturday. Mr. Thome, who has an Alliance store, reports he
will employ between 40-50 local residents. Frank Bennett will manage the meat department and Tom, Delatti, the produce counter. The store will carry most national
brands as well as the Red & White and Seven Farms brands, control labels of Super
Duper. The store will also feature a complete flower shop. A special feature of Super
Duper will be discount meat pricing, with oven meats containing the unique disposable
pop-up temperature gauge.
2 Top Seniors Police Dept. Receives
Hoover Foundation Gift
Local Delegates In
Posts at Boys State
Tom FpHs served in the.
'post'of bank attorney and Mark
Gissiner, cpuiity treasurer,
during the 36tiYBuckeye Boys
State held June 14-22 at Ashland College.
Tom, son of Mr. and Mrs..
Marshal Folts of 912 Church
St. SW, was sponsored by the
North Canton Legion Post 419.
Mark, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Gissiner of 1104 Valley
NW, was sponsored by North
Canton Rotary. Both are Hoover juniors.
A recognition dUujer Saturday, June 30, at 5 p.m. atfloov-
er High cafeteria will climax
observance of Senior Citizens
Week here. ]''
U. S. Congressman Ralphs.
Regula will be guest speaker
for the dinner at which Distinguished Senior Citizen
Awards will be presented to a
man and woman chosen by a
panel of local judges. ,
Mayor' DdVid* W„Jtobnsoh<
who worked with a pix*
member seniors ,steering
committee in planning this
week, reported some 65 attended the kick-off breakfast
Monday morning at the Imperial House.
Seniors will have a pot luck
lunch and games Wednesday
afternoon at Dogwood Park.
Thursday from 10 until 2 they
will stage a craft show on the
front portico of City Hall.
Armstrong Accepts Ohio
Athletic Assn. Position
Hoover High's principal for the last six years, Richard L.
Armstrong, has accepted the post of executive assistant to
Harold E. Meyer, commissioner of the Ohio High School Athletic Association in Columbus.
He will assume duties Aug.
1 as the OHSAA office manager, with additional duties as
tournament coordinator.
As office manager, he will
oversee all bookkeeping, expenditures and financial reports and be in charge of
membership and sports participation cards for athletes
in all sports at the high
school level.
His tournament duties will
include all programs, tickets
and trophy awards for state-
level events and the setting of
dates, sites and the naming of
managers for regional events.
He'll also be the financial officer for all district and sectional tourney events in all
sports.
Armstrong will take to Columbus 23 years ofexperience
in education as an administrator, teacher, former coach,
faculty manager, tournament
manager.
-Here 15 Years-
He has been at Hoover for
15 years. Armstrong came to
Stark County in 1955 as a McKinley football aide under
Wade Watts. He spent three
years on the McKinley staff
before accepting jobs as a
football assistant and faculty,
manager at Hoover.
-Tourney Manager-
Armstrong has managed
Northeastern District track
meets on the sectional, district and defunct regional levels since 1961.
He began directing basketball tournaments in 1965 and
assisted Don Hertler, Hoover
football coach, with baseball
tournaments until 1971.
Armstrong beeran his coach-
A gift of $25,000 from the
Hoover Foundation for the
completion of a new indoor
firing range for the North Canton Police Department was
announced Monday night at
Council meeting.
A- resolution of appreciation
to the Foundation and com-
^••menaatit-m ot thaw*?**, of .Police Chief RobenD. FUlkwere
contained in a resolution introduced at Council by Dale
Gerber, chairman of council's
safety committee.
Council authorized advertising for bids for the range
equipment and for the ventilating and duct-exhaust system
needed for the construction
of the indoor weapons training
facility in the lower level of
city hall.
The range, included in original plans for the new city
hall but never completed for
lack of funds, is expected to
cost an estimated $23,000 to
equip. -
Labor on the project will be
.done by men of the department,
except for building of a necessary concrete block wall.
The safety committee's report showed the facility was
badly needed here since the
local department members
had to use range facilities of
other departments in the area.
It is planned to open it to
outside departments on an invitation basis with the only
costs involved to them of tar?
■■gets and ammunition. '
The project is to get underway as soon as bids are completed and awarded. Equipment delivery would take from
three to four months, the report showed.
5 NC Students Earn
Certificates At Branch
Five North Canton residents
recently earned a certificate
from Kent State University,
Stark Campus for completiiig a
continuing education course,
Bookkeeping for Small Business I.
They are Omar R. Givler of
5735 Sandalwood Ave. NE;
Linda Osgood of 300 Rose Lane
SE; John Pekar of 3915 Linda
Ave. NW; Glorine Snyder of
6943 Harvey Ave. NW and John
N. Wu of 1330 Janet Ave. NW.
Lone dissenting vote on the
pay hikes approved and on proposed raises for the city administrator and superintendent of permits inspection
came from Ward 2 Councilman Dale Gerber.
A member of Council's finance committee along with
chairman Glenn Wehl and
Charles Strausser, Mr. Wehl
said he objected to the raise
for councilmen because he felt
that men who seek those posts
do so because of personal
committment to the city.
On the vote to raise City Administrator Clifford Gehrum's salary to $15,770 from
its present $14,770 he commented "When you look at salary, you should also look at
the fringe benefits. His salary
was raised Feb. 2 and now
we're getting into merit raises
and I feel this action is premature."
He also called "premature"
and voted no on the ordinance
to raise the salary of Forrest
Moore, permits and inspection superintendent, from $10,
125 to $12,000. Both ordinances will come up for second reading at Council's July
9 meeting.
It was pointed out that the
added responsibility of water
billing and collecting hadbeen
added to Mr. Moore's department.
The raise ordinances also
contain hikes for others serving in the finance and law sections of the administration and
for employees in the engineering and inspection departments.
Four ordinances passed
Council signalling go-ahead
for a division of Emergency
Medical Services to operate in
the Department of Safety. Legislation calls for a staff of 30
volunteers to man a city-
owned ambulance service,
establishes a training fund and
set salary for the department.
Safety Chairman Dale Gerber complimented Mayor
David Johnson and the work of
his ambulance committee,
headed by Jim Mills, for conceiving the idea and pushing it
to completion.
-Sewer Study Delayed-
A charge of "railroading"
by W. V. Hildebrand of 1213
Pleasantview Ave. SE and no
votes by Ward 3 Councilman
J. C. Nelson and Mr. Gerber
stopped emergency action for
an engineering study for a sanitary sewer line on Pleasant-
view SE which runs south off
Schneider Rd. along East
Creek.
Mr. Hildebrand said "the
majority does not want it and
cannot afford it" and that five
or six of the eight property
owners on the dead-end street
have adequate septic systems.
The proposed study by
Shisler, Hunsinger & Associates was recommended by
Council's Sanitary Sewer
committee to correct a flooding problem that has rendered
the septic system unusable at
the Roger Viscounte residence, 1122 Pleasantwood,
since February.
The Viscounte family, which
includes five small youngs-
(Continued to page 12)
St. Paul Adds
Deacon to Staff
Bishop James W. Malone of
the Youngstown Diocese has
announced the appointment of
Rev. Edward Concricote to
serve as a deacon atSt.
Paul's Catholic Church here.;
His appointment was effective June 15 but he will not be
moving to the parish house until next week.
Rev. Conricote had been
serving at St. Edward Parish
in Youngstown. He was ordained to the deaconate on
March 10, 1973 after attending St. Gregory Seminary in
Cincinnati and Mount St. Mary
Seminary in Norwood.
NC Elks Club
Charged With
Illegal Sales
State liquor agents and
North Canton Police Department conducted a raid at the
North Canton Elks Club at 1407
N. Main St. shortly before 7
p.m. Monday, June 25.
Undercover state liquor
agents entered the club eaflifei*
in tbe evening and purchased
liquor. The bartender waS
charged later in the raid by
the state liquor agents for il*1
legal liquor sale.
Charges were also filed
Tuesday by North Canton Police against the bartender,
Robert L. Rininger, for permitting gambling and possess-'
ion of gambling devices, Chief
Robert D. Fulk reported.
ing career as grid boss at
Centerburg. He later moved
to Crestline in a similar capacity before Joining Watts.
"It's one of those things
which is hard to believe,"
Armstrong said of his new position—the fulfillment of a
long-time ambition. "It's
right up my alley."
As tournament coordinator,
one of his first duties will be
to name his successor for the
Canton Class AAA basketball
eliminations, in addition to
finding a man to assume responsibility for a Class AA
cage regional in Memorial
Auditorium next winter.
'Armstrong was to have directed both.
; He and his wife will begin
looking for a home in the
Columbus area. They have
three children—Susan, a senior at Miami of Ohio; Jim,
a sophomore at Grove City,
Pa., College, and Murray, an
outstanding basketball prospect who will be a high school
sophomore in the fall.
GIFT FOR HERITAGE HOME. This antique mantel clock
that had been on loan from a dealer to the North Canton
Heritage Society now belongs to the society thanks to the
generosity of North Canton Jaycee Wives. They donated $100
for the purchase of the clock and an antique quilt stand
that will be on display. Mrs. Ruth Basner (right), society
curator, accepts the gift from (left)- Mrs. Thomas Haynes,
Jaycee Wives president, arid Mrs. Douglas Wade, project
chairman Board president, John Baxter, made formal announcement at the group's last meeting that $11,000 had
been donated toward the $28,000 needed to purchase the
house at 815 N. Main as permanent home for the society.
"All legal transactions are complete and the building is
ours," he said. The society will be closed the first two
weeks In July but will resume regular hours July 16 when!
it will be open daily from 9-3, Saturdays from 9 to noij-S
and Sundays 2-5. Membership in the society remains ope'tt
and area residents are encouraged to loan or donate artt**
facts from the early history of this community. Any grou'p
wishing special tours of the home and museum during the
next two weeks may contact Mrs. Basner.